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To: TimF who wrote (323064)	1/27/2007 1:28:49 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574122

In any case the situation here really isn't a free market situation. The demand for corn is growing because of government subsidies and requirements for ethanol. Also corn gets subsidies and controls, and now Mexico is trying to control prices of the tortillas produced with corn. Gov't subsidies have nothing to do with the growing demand for corn. As for Mexico, it grows its own corn. The fact that it can't produce enough corn has more to do with its incipient corruption and inefficient farming methods than anything the US is doing.